The safe religion, or, Three disputations for the reformed catholic religion against popery proving…The safe religion, or, Three disputations for the reformed catholike religion against popery proving…

Obj. Sense is infallible (suppose the right temper of the Organs, object, Medium) till God tell us the contrary, but then it is fallible: But in the point of Transubstantiation God hath told us the contrary to what common sense apprehendeth: Therefore here sense is deceived.

Obj. Sense is infallible (suppose the right temper of the Organs, object, Medium) till God tell us the contrary, but then it is fallible: But in the point of Transubstantiation God hath told us the contrary to what common sense apprehendeth: Therefore here sence is deceived.

Answ. 1. Sense must in order be first known to be infallible, before you can tell any thing that God hath said or wrote, of its fallibility or infallibility: or else you cannot tell but your eyes in reading, or your ears in hearing those words of his, did deceive you. 2. Sense and Reason are the judging faculties which God hath given to mankind for the discerning of their objects. It is not therefore to be imagined that God doth turn the great Deceiver of the world, and by supernatural light contradict the Light of Nature, even the apprehensions of the sound and ⟨p. 245⟩general sense of the world: Gods supernatural Revelations presupposes his Natural ones, and are additions thereto, but do not contradict them: for then God should contradict himself when both are his Revelations. God cannot lye, saith the Apostle: And what were it for God to lye or say truth, but only to make a deceitful or not deceitful discovery of his mind and will or the effects to us? Indeed, there may through our imperfection be a deceit of the senses, when the Organs are distempered, and the medium, or object are not conveniently disposed: and every such distance, impediment, or other ill disposure, is not as Gods voice to tell us the thing as what to our imperfect sense it seems: But if the common senses of men, that are sound and not hindered by any such impediments shall yet be all deceived merely by a contradicting ordinance of God, then it would seem that God gave man contradictory lights and guides. And their objection seems to be as bad, as if they should say so of Gods word [That it is alway true, except where God tells us the contrary] but if it might be false at any time, how can you tell that that very word is true which you pretend doth tell you of the falsehood of another word: so say I here. If sense be not always infallible (where it hath its requisite assistance) then how can you tell that your senses are infallible when you are reading [Hoc est corpus meum, This is my body] which you think contradicteth the infallibility of sense? For 2. Is the infallibility of sense a thing that is known by nature, or by supernatural Light? Not by supernatural Light (unless consequentially) where doth Scripture or your Tradition say, that sense is sometime infallible, and sometime fallible (supposit is requisitis)?